Privacy Policy for Temple of Deliverance

Effective Date: February 12, 2025

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://www.todcot.com.

2. Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information:

  • Personal Information: When you interact with our website or services, we may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, postal address, and any other information you voluntarily provide. This may occur when you fill out forms, leave comments, register for events, make donations, or contact us. This might include information provided through online applications for the college or registrations for church events.
  • Non-Personal Information: We may also collect non-personal information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, and website usage data. This information is typically collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
  • Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
  • Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. We recommend optimizing images for web use before uploading to reduce file size and improve site performance.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use your information for the following purposes:

  • To Provide Services: To provide you with the information, resources, and services you request from us, such as responding to inquiries, processing registrations for the college or church events, and providing access to online content.
  • Communication: To communicate with you about events, news, updates, and other relevant information related to Temple of Deliverance, including updates about the college and church.
  • Donations: To process and acknowledge donations made to the church or college.
  • Website Improvement: To analyze website usage data and improve the functionality and user experience of our website.
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Other Purposes: Membership management, event planning, volunteer coordination, processing applications to the college, academic record keeping (for college students).

4. Cookies

We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website.

  • Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly (e.g., login cookies for the college portal or church administration).
  • Non-Essential Cookies: We may also use non-essential cookies for analytics (Google Analytics), user preferences, and potentially social media integration. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website. If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

5. Embedded Content

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, images from Flickr, social media feeds, embedded maps, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party websites.

6. Sharing Your Information

We may share your information with:

  • Service Providers: We may share information with third-party service providers who assist us with website hosting (e.g., [Name of hosting provider]), data analysis (e.g., Google Analytics), email delivery (e.g., [Name of email marketing service]), online donation processing (e.g., Givelify, Cash App as mentioned on the site), and other services. We will only share your data with third parties who have agreed to comply with applicable data protection laws.
  • Legal Authorities: We may disclose your information to legal authorities if required by law or legal process.
  • Other Parties: We may share information with the Illinois Southeast Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ. We might also share information with individuals involved in the administration of the church and college (e.g., board members, faculty, staff).

7. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, unless a longer retention period is required by law. For student records at the college, we will comply with FERPA guidelines. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

8. Your Rights

You have the right to:

  • Access: Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
  • Rectification: Request that we correct any inaccuracies in your personal information.
  • Erasure: Request that we erase your personal information (subject to legal obligations).
  • Data Portability: Request to receive a copy of your personal data in a portable format.
  • Object: Object to the processing of your personal data.
  • Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data (where applicable).

To exercise these rights, please contact us at:

Temple of Deliverance
2200 Camp Jackson Rd., Cahokia Heights, IL 62205
templeofdeliverance@todcot.com
(618) 515-3205

9. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no data transmission over the internet is completely secure.

10. International Data Transfers

Your data may be transferred to and processed in [list countries where data may be transferred, if any – if none, state “We do not currently transfer data internationally”]. If data is transferred internationally (e.g., if using cloud services with servers in other countries), we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data during any international transfers, such as using standard contractual clauses or relying on Privacy Shield certifications (if applicable).

11. Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are not intended for children under the age of [age – specify age – e.g., 13]. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under this age. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with a revised “Effective Date.” We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

13. Contact Us

For any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Temple of Deliverance
2200 Camp Jackson Rd., Cahokia Heights, IL 62205
templeofdeliverance@todcot.com